| Name(s) |
SARADA DEVI
(Birth Name: Saradamani Mukhopadhyay) |
| Date of
Birth |
December 22, 1853
– Jayrambati, Bengal, India. |
| Date of
Death |
July 20, 1920
- Udbodhan Office, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. |
|
Identity |
Holy Mother (Sri
Maa) - wife and spiritual counterpart of Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa, a 19th century mystic of Bengal. |
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- She played an important role in
the growth and furtherance of the
Ramakrishna movement.
- The followers of the Ramakrishna
movement regard Sarada Devi as an
incarnation of the
Divine Mother.
- Udbodhan is the
only Bengali publication of
Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna
Mission, started by
Swami Vivekananda in
January 1899.
- Over the years, it also grew
into a publishing house, and
remained one of the leading
publishers of literature of
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.
- After Ramakrishna's death, She
stayed most of the time either at
Jayrambati or at the Udbodhan office
at Calcutta.
- She did not write any books; her
utterances and reminiscences
have been recorded by her disciples.
- Though uneducated herself, she
advocated education for
women.
- Though uneducated, her spiritual
insight and utterances are highly
regarded by scholars; some of these
are reproduced below:
- Practise meditation, and
gradually your mind will be so
calm and fixed that you will
find it hard to keep away from
meditation.
- The mind is everything.
It is in the mind alone that one
feels pure and impure. A man,
first of all, must make his own
mind guilty and then alone can
he see another man's guilt.
- Before her death, she
gave the last advice to the
grief-stricken devotees, "But I
tell you one thing — if you want
peace of mind, do not find fault
with others. Rather see your own
faults. Learn to make the whole
world your own. No one is a
stranger my child: this whole
world is your own!" - This is
considered as her last message
to the world.
- After her death on July
20, 1920, her body was cremated at
the Belur Math.
|
|
Commemorations |
In 1954, Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna
Sarada Mission, a monastic order for
women was founded in the honour of
Sarada Devi. |
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